[...] what we think of as nothing isn't really nothing. Even if you were to create a perfect vacuum, at the quantum level it would still be populated with pairs of tiny "virtual" particles that flash in and out of existence and whose energy values fluctuate. As a consequence of these fluctuations, the speed of a photon passing through a vacuum varies, about 50 quintillionths of a second per square meter.

OK, whilst Googling the above I came upon this fascinating photo .... maybe I'm more interested in the filled part of a photo than the "empty space", that scientists seem to think is not that empty after all.

Quote:

Some 25,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jewish people attend the wedding ceremony of Shalom Rokeach, the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, and his bride, Hannah Batya Penet, in Jerusalem. Belz Hasidic dynasty leader Yissachar Dov Rokeach heads one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world, according to local media. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

As far as I've been able to ascertain, yeah, nothing is assertion. We have no real, meaningful definition of "nothing"... traditionally it has had a connotation of a void, perhaps a space, without anyting in it... but no such place can be shown to exist (or not exist?). Even in perfect vacuum there is still energy, there are quantum fluctuations, particles spontaneously emerging and disappearing... even in vacuum, there is stuff, something.

Nothing may be a complete abstract, akin to infinity.

jajathanja

Life In Every Breath
Beauty In Every Thought
Song In Every Talk
4
Ever
Y
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It's nothing

sark

Nothing doesn't exist

there's always something
even in nothing, there's nothing, which is something

can you beat this paradox?

the_emissary

@ sark if nothing doesn't exist, how can something exist in nothing?

standready

Absolutely nothing will NOT be tolerated!

nickfyoung

When we were kids we would equate nothing to none. Therefore, using the logic of kids, whenever we came across a nun we would refer to her as a nothing.

IceCreamTruck

IceCreamTruck

I found a way to post nothing ^^^

PS. but... as science would have it... there is actually something there

Bluedoll

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rjraaz

If title is nothing than why I open this thread to find anything?

Will be there anything that make me to say I found something here?

deanhills

IceCreamTruck wrote:

Ah right .... nothing ....

the_emissary

deanhills

TE, that was a really great one! Think I'm going to add that to my to do lists from now on, just to have something I can tick for sure.

grofet

Nothing is needed in our life just like zero in our number
Without nothing our life can feel strange
So, nothing is very important for our life

deanhills

grofet wrote:

Nothing is needed in our life just like zero in our number
Without nothing our life can feel strange
So, nothing is very important for our life

Agreed. I always see the "nothing" as the white space in a page, that gives meaning to what's in a page. Sometimes more white space gives more special meaning.

It should be "black space" cause I hate looking at white on the computer screen all the time.

manfer

Without yin there is no yang

deanhills

IceCreamTruck wrote:

deanhills wrote:

Here is an article about white space in Web design:

It should be "black space" cause I hate looking at white on the computer screen all the time.

lol .... you're right of course. White space would not be able to exist without any colour to give it its identity.

IceCreamTruck

deanhills wrote:

White space would not be able to exist without any colour to give it its identity.

Exactly. White space is not nothing!

jajarvin

Before the birth of our universe, was there anything?

deanhills

jajarvin wrote:

Before the birth of our universe, was there anything?

How would we know, we were nothing then.

IceCreamTruck

deanhills wrote:

jajarvin wrote:

Before the birth of our universe, was there anything?

How would we know, we were nothing then.

Actually it's not that long ago, but you only had 1000 posts at that time!

spinout

remember the yevish tv serie about nothing! Seinfeldt....

Bluedoll

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Bluedoll

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the_emissary

I hope everyone on Frihost knows I consider them family, and

IceCreamTruck

Bluedoll wrote:

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Almost nothing!

Bluedoll

standready wrote:

Absolutely nothing will NOT be tolerated!

the_emissary

Kindly tell me how you all feel but type nothing.

IceCreamTruck

the_emissary wrote:

Kindly tell me how you all feel but type nothing.

Not sure I follow you. Can you elaborate?

Flazh

Lol, the point of this thread
(NOTHING)

the_emissary

That was a good one Flazh see the point of the thread below:

IceCreamTruck

barma

the cat above, hilarious! But still... nothing...

deanhills

watersoul

This graffiti sticker has been on a stairwell door in a car park near me for a couple of years:

RoylanM

Nothing is a strong word in general conversation depending on how you use it. Like if your mom ask you what are you doing online and you say "nothing" then it comes off as nothing important. If you say something like "I'm not doing nothing" then that may send the message you are litterally being lazy.

mahirh

RoylanM wrote:

"I'm not doing nothing" then that may send the message you are litterally being lazy.

Gotcha! Thats a double negative and this proves the weird notion of the scientists Expecting to find something out of nothing. A "bit" counter intuitive?

All I can think is that 'nothing' is, or is perhaps most obviously, an English equivalent to the null pointer.

deanhills

Sometimes nothing can mean more than something.

IceCreamTruck

Something about that image is disturbing, deanhills. My mind resorts to comedy in this case and I imagine the guy saying something like "wait a minute... where are the Spice Girls!"

[I searched for more funny images that were topic specific... success!]

codegeek

You can achieve it too:

deanhills

IceCreamTruck wrote:

Something about that image is disturbing, deanhills. My mind resorts to comedy in this case and I imagine the guy saying something like "wait a minute... where are the Spice Girls!"

[I searched for more funny images that were topic specific... success!]

A good one!

OK let's see if I could do better this time round.

the_emissary

@codegeek post #14 dated Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:53 pm is the same image as the one you just posted. However, I guess posting it again is nothing

ratanegra

Nihilism is nice. I like it. Dadaism is nice too, but I prefer nihilism (well, consciously, I prefer dadaism in the sense that it gives me something to cling on to, but nihilism is the answer to all the questions that have ever been made).

johans

sark wrote:

Nothing doesn't exist

there's always something
even in nothing, there's nothing, which is something

can you beat this paradox?

There is no such thing as nothing. ONLY empty is exist.

ratanegra

johans wrote:

sark wrote:

Nothing doesn't exist

there's always something
even in nothing, there's nothing, which is something

can you beat this paradox?

There is no such thing as nothing. ONLY empty is exist.

Not absolute. "Nothing" is merely theoretical. It is impossible to achieve "nothing" ever. And absolute void is another purely theoretical concept.